Book, Democracy and Fundamental Rights Pays Homage To P Bonavides 1/16[LS]

Paulo Bonavides is often seen as Brazil's greatest constitutionalist and theorist of this branch of law who innovated its methodology, themes and hermeneutics.. The pluralistic and open vision of the Constitution is also credited to this scientist.. This researcher, however, delved into even deeper themes of Political Science and State Theory, and did so with philosophical arguments that draw attention to. A state theorist and political scientist with a German background, the first decades of his academic research were focused not on Constitutional Law, but on State Theory, an area in which he produced his Habilitation and Doctoral theses.. I refer to the books On the Ends of the State (Strength: Publishing House of the Institute of Ceara, 1955) and From the Liberal State to the Social State (Strength: University Press, 1958); and to them I add those entitled Theory of the State (São Paulo: Saraiva, 1967) and Political Science (Rio de Janeiro: Getulio Vargas Foundation, 1967). The most fruitful phase (and the most vigorous) of Paulo Bonavides' scientific production was perhaps the 1960s. 1967 was certainly the most emblematic year in his career, because his Theory of the State and his Political Science were published.. If he had only edited these two monuments of Brazilian political law, Paulo Bonavides would already be our great political scientist and our greatest philosopher of the State, without the criticisms that were made dense in A Crise Política Brasileira, from 1969, and in all his subsequent creation.. Dimas Macedo Master and Associate Professor in Constitutional Law. Professor at UFC Law School. Follow our publications, register and receive information by email (Click here!)